In: Statistics and Probability
A study of North York University students showed the mean age of
all students in the first year of university to be 19.6 years old
with a standard deviation of 1.06 years. A randomly selected
subgroup of these first-year students also averaged 19.4 years in
age with a standard deviation 1.05 years.
a) Are the numbers 19.6 and 1.06 statistics or parameters?
Explain.
b) Are the numbers 19.4 and 1.05 statistics or parameters? Explain.
c) Select any correct pair of labels and values below:
Parameters are the values calculated using the entire population.
Whereas the statistics are the values calculated using sample observations.
and denote the population mean and population standard deviation respectively.
s denote the sample standard deviation.